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testaceus, capite antennis et elytroruni fascia lata mediana 

 apiceque nigropiceis, pedibus anticis rulis posterioribus 

 piceis (coxis f emorum basi tarsisque rulis) ; supra sat f ortiter 

 (capite prothoraceque quam elytra paullo minus fortiter) 

 minus crebre punctulatus, capite prothoraceque (quam elytra 

 sat angustioribus) inter se latitudine ajqualibus ; hoc trans- 

 verso postice leviter angustato, lateribus vix arcuatis. 



Maris segmento ventrali apicali fovea leviter impresso ; tibiis 

 anticis apice manifeste arcuatis ; oculis supra sat approxi- 

 matis. Long., 1 1. ; lat., -^ 1. 



The antennae of the male are a little more than half the 

 length of the body, stout, and of almost even thickness, the 

 second joint small, the eleventh twice as long as the tenth, the 

 rest about equal in length, inter se, none of them transverse ; 

 those of the female are a little less than half the length of the 

 body, and are very stout, joints 4-11 of even width and con- 

 siderably wider than the basal 3 joints, 4-10 all transverse, 11 

 considerably longer than 10. Joints 1 and 3 are evidently 

 longer than 4-10, joint 2 is small. The basal joint of the hind 

 tarsi is about half again as long as (and much stouter than) all 

 the others together ; that of the intermediate is about equal to 

 the apical four joints together. The antepenultimate joint is 

 considerably produced below the following joints but does not 

 appear to be lamellated. 



Victoria ; Alpine district, on flowers. 



>S'. lateralis, sp. nov. Ovalis ; minus parallelus ; subnitidus ; 

 subtus pubescens ; supra pilis erectis vestitus ; rufo-testaceus, 

 antennis (basi apiceque exceptis) capite prothorace et 

 elytroruni macula utrinque laterali (hac vix ante medium 

 posita) piceo-nigris, geniculis vix inf uscatis ; supra sat 

 fortiter (capite prothoraceque quam elytra paullo minus 

 fortiter) sat crebre punctulatus ; capite transversim sub- 

 quadrato quam prothorax sublatiori ; hoc transverso antice 

 sat angusto mox pone apicem latiori, lateribus (parte antica 

 excepta) fere parallelis ; elytris quam caput sat latioribus. 

 Mas latet. Long., 1 J 1. ; lat., Jl. 



Apart from the difference in colour and markings, the present 

 species differs from the preceding, inter alia, in the structure of 

 the antennae, the basal joints of which are not noticeably more 

 slender than the rest, nor any of the joints except the tenth 

 transverse, the second joint, moreover, being not very much 

 smaller than the first and third. The antennae are about as 

 stout as those of S. la^tus but a trifle longer ; their testaceous 

 apical joint is very conspicuous. My example of this species 



